A Genetic System for Methanocaldococcus jannaschii: An Evolutionary Deeply Rooted Hyperthermophilic Methanarchaeon.

abstract：:The Formyl-peptide receptor-2 (FPR2) is a seven transmembrane G protein-coupled receptor, which plays an important role in sensing of bacteria and modulation of immune responses. FPR2 is also used by viruses for their own profit. Annexin A1, one of the multiple ligands of FPR2, is incorporated in the budding virus mem...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Alessi MC,Cenac N,Si-Tahar M,Riteau B

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance represents one of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century, and it is globally recognized that addressing this problem requires a concerted One Health approach involving humans, animals, and the environment. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) currently represents a g...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Correia S,Silva V,García-Díez J,Teixeira P,Pimenta K,Pereira JE,Oliveira S,Rocha J,Manaia CM,Igrejas G,Poeta P

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium sp., and Entamoeba histolytica are important pathogenic intestinal parasites and are amongst the leading causes worldwide of diarrheal illness in humans. Diseases caused by these organisms, giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis, and amoebiasis, respectively, are characterized by self-limited d...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Di Genova BM,Tonelli RR

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli, such as serotype O157:H7, are a leading cause of food-associated outbreaks. While the primary reservoir is associated with cattle, plant foods have been associated as sources of human infection. E. coli is able to grow in the tissue of food plants such as spinach. While fecal conta...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： NandaKafle G,Christie AA,Vilain S,Brözel VS

更新日期：2018-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible protein phosphorylation, regulated by protein kinases and phosphatases, mediates a switch between protein activity and cellular pathways that contribute to a large number of cellular processes. The Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome encodes 11 Serine/Threonine kinases (STPKs) which show close homology to euk...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fortuin S,Tomazella GG,Nagaraj N,Sampson SL,Gey van Pittius NC,Soares NC,Wiker HG,de Souza GA,Warren RM

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Crustose coralline red algae (CCA) are important components of marine ecosystems thriving from tropical waters and up to the poles. They fulfill important ecological services including framework building and induction of larval settlement. Like other marine organisms, CCAs have not been spared by the increase in marin...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Quéré G,Intertaglia L,Payri C,Galand PE

更新日期：2019-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil microbial diversity is huge and a few grams of soil contain more bacterial taxa than there are bird species on Earth. This high diversity often makes predicting the responses of soil bacteria to environmental change intractable and restricts our capacity to predict the responses of soil functions to global change...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Le Roux X,Bouskill NJ,Niboyet A,Barthes L,Dijkstra P,Field CB,Hungate BA,Lerondelle C,Pommier T,Tang J,Terada A,Tourna M,Poly F

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments with different phytoplankton densities in lake samples showed that a high biomass increases the rate of hydrogen peroxide (HP) degradation and decreases the effectiveness of HP in the selective suppression of dominant cyanobacteria. However, selective application of HP requires usage of low doses only, acc...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Weenink EF,Luimstra VM,Schuurmans JM,Van Herk MJ,Visser PM,Matthijs HC

更新日期：2015-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice false smut fungus (teleomorph: Villosiclava virens; anamorph: Ustilaginoidea virens) can generate chlamydospores and survive winter under field conditions. The chlamydospore is considered as an important infection source of the disease. However, little is known about the regulatory mechanism of the chlamydospore ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yu J,Yu M,Song T,Cao H,Pan X,Yong M,Qi Z,Du Y,Zhang R,Yin X,Liu Y

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human life expectancy is rapidly increasing with an associated increasing burden of chronic diseases, such as neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. However, there is limited progress in finding effective treatment for these conditions. For this reason, members of the genus Streptomyces have been explored extensively ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ser HL,Tan LT,Law JW,Chan KG,Duangjai A,Saokaew S,Pusparajah P,Ab Mutalib NS,Khan TM,Goh BH,Lee LH

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Root-colonizing bacteria can support plant growth and help fend off pathogens. It is clear that such bacteria benefit from plant-derived carbon, but it remains ambiguous why they invest in plant-beneficial traits. We suggest that selection via protist predation contributes to recruitment of plant-beneficial traits in ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Amacker N,Gao Z,Agaras BC,Latz E,Kowalchuk GA,Valverde CF,Jousset A,Weidner S

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is still a major threat to global public health. Here, a novel diagnosis assay, termed as multiple cross displacement amplification combined with nanoparticle-based lateral flow biosensor (MCDA-LFB), was developed to simultaneously detect IS6110 and IS1081 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in DNA extrac...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jiao WW,Wang Y,Wang GR,Wang YC,Xiao J,Sun L,Li JQ,Wen SA,Zhang TT,Ma Q,Huang HR,Shen AD

更新日期：2019-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to Earth's changing climate, the ongoing and foreseeable spreading of mycotoxigenic Aspergillus species has increased the possibility of mycotoxin contamination in the feed and food production chain. These harmful mycotoxins have aroused serious health and economic problems since their first appearance. The most p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ráduly Z,Szabó L,Madar A,Pócsi I,Csernoch L

更新日期：2020-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) is the leading cause of corneal blindness worldwide. A constant increase in multi-drug resistant PA strains have heightened the challenge of effectively managing corneal infections with conventional antibiotics. Antimicrobial peptides are promising antibiotic analogs with a unique mode of a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mohammed I,Said DG,Nubile M,Mastropasqua L,Dua HS

更新日期：2019-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Powdery mildew infects a wide range of crops and economic plants, causing substantial losses. Rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis) are the primary source of natural rubber, and powdery mildew infection causes significant losses to natural rubber yields. How the causal agent, Erysiphe quercicola, establishes successful in...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li X,Liu Y,He Q,Li S,Liu W,Lin C,Miao W

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Human breast milk is widely recognized as the best source of nutrients for healthy growth and development of infants; it contains a diverse microbiota. Here, we characterized the diversity of the microbiota in the breast milk of East Asian women and assessed whether delivery mode influenced the microbiota in the milk ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li SW,Watanabe K,Hsu CC,Chao SH,Yang ZH,Lin YJ,Chen CC,Cao YM,Huang HC,Chang CH,Tsai YC

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cells are surrounded by an exoskeleton-like structure, the cell wall, composed primarily of the peptidoglycan (PG) sacculus. This structure is made up of glycan strands cross-linked by short peptides generating a covalent mesh that shapes bacteria and prevents their lysis due to their high internal osmotic p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yadav AK,Espaillat A,Cava F

更新日期：2018-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) recurrence can result from either relapse of an original infection or exogenous reinfection with a new strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). The aim of this study was to assess the roles of relapse and reinfection among recurrent TB cases characterized by a high prevalence rate of drug-resistan...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zong Z,Huo F,Shi J,Jing W,Ma Y,Liang Q,Jiang G,Dai G,Huang H,Pang Y

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) is a facultative intracellular pathogen that colonizes the chicken gut leading to contamination of carcasses during processing. A reduction in intestinal colonization by SE could result in reduced carcass contamination thereby reducing the risk of illnesses in humans. Short chain fatty acid...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gupta A,Bansal M,Wagle B,Sun X,Rath N,Donoghue A,Upadhyay A

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Biosynthesis of nanoparticles (NPs) by microorganisms is a cost- and energy-effective approach. However, how the production of NPs affects the population of producing organism remains as an unresolved question. The present study aimed to evaluate the kinetics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae growth in relation to synthesis...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Asghari-Paskiabi F,Imani M,Eybpoosh S,Rafii-Tabar H,Razzaghi-Abyaneh M

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Marsupials diverged from eutherian mammals about 148 million years ago and represent a unique lineage of mammals with distinctive morphological and reproductive characteristics. Marsupials have significantly shorter gestation periods than eutherians. Pregnancy typically ranges from 15 to 35 days, with young being born...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cheng Y,Belov K

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is a key regulatory pathway of gene expression in almost all eukaryotes. This mechanism relies on short non-coding RNA molecules (sRNAs) to recognize in a sequence-specific manner DNA or RNA targets leading to transcriptional or post-transcriptional gene silencing. To date, the fundamental role...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Silvestri A,Turina M,Fiorilli V,Miozzi L,Venice F,Bonfante P,Lanfranco L

更新日期：2020-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, oosporein, a fungal toxic secondary metabolite known to be a toxic agent causing chronic disorders in animals, was isolated from fungus Cochliobolus kusanoi of Nerium oleander L. Toxic effects of oosporein and the possible mechanisms of cytotoxicity as well as the role of oxidative stress in cyto...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ramesha A,Venkataramana M,Nirmaladevi D,Gupta VK,Chandranayaka S,Srinivas C

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA silencing, an evolutionarily conserved and sequence-specific gene-inactivation system, has a pivotal role in antiviral defense in most eukaryotic organisms. In plants, a class of exogenous small RNAs (sRNAs) originating from the infecting virus called virus-derived small interfering RNAs (vsiRNAs) are predominantl...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang C,Wu Z,Li Y,Wu J

更新日期：2015-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Anopheles mosquito midgut harbors a diverse group of endogenous bacteria that grow extensively after the blood feeding and help in food digestion and nutrition in many ways. Although, the growth of endogenous bacteria is regulated by various factors, however, the robust antibacterial immune reactions are generally sup...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kajla M,Choudhury TP,Kakani P,Gupta K,Dhawan R,Gupta L,Kumar S

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, controllable, targeted proteolysis has emerged as one of the most promising new strategies to study essential genes and otherwise toxic mutations. One of the principal limitations preventing the wider adoption of this approach is due to the lack of easily identifiable species-specific degrons that can be use...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu N,Chaudhry MT,Xie Z,Kreth J,Merritt J

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most important contagious mastitis pathogens in dairy cattle. Due to its zoonotic potential, control of S. aureus is not only of great economic importance in the dairy industry but also a significant public health concern. The aim of this study was to decipher the potential of bovin...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kümmel J,Stessl B,Gonano M,Walcher G,Bereuter O,Fricker M,Grunert T,Wagner M,Ehling-Schulz M

更新日期：2016-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix-assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectroscopy (MALDI-TOF MS) has been used routinely over the past decade in clinical microbiology laboratories to rapidly characterize diverse microorganisms of medical importance both at the genus and species levels. Currently, there is keen interest in ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tuohy JM,Mueller-Spitz SR,Albert CM,Scholz-Ng SE,Wall ME,Noutsios GT,Gutierrez AJ,Sandrin TR

更新日期：2018-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bakken Shale and underlying Three Forks Formation is an important oil and gas reservoir in the United States. The hydrocarbon resources in this region are accessible using unconventional oil and gas extraction methods, including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. However, the geochemistry and microbiolo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tinker K,Gardiner J,Lipus D,Sarkar P,Stuckman M,Gulliver D

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-read nanopore sequencing by a MinION device offers the unique possibility to directly sequence native RNA. We combined an enzymatic poly-A tailing reaction with the native RNA sequencing to (i) sequence complex population of single-stranded (ss)RNA viruses in parallel, (ii) detect genome, subgenomic mRNA/mRNA sim...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wongsurawat T,Jenjaroenpun P,Taylor MK,Lee J,Tolardo AL,Parvathareddy J,Kandel S,Wadley TD,Kaewnapan B,Athipanyasilp N,Skidmore A,Chung D,Chaimayo C,Whitt M,Kantakamalakul W,Sutthent R,Horthongkham N,Ussery DW,Jonsson

更新日期：2019-02-25 00:00:00